World of Motion

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Hello everyone; it's Mcogfan with yet another Epcot article. I give you the next attraction.

This is an attraction that focuses mainly on transportation. The attraction itself is shaped into that of a modern shaped wheel. Another thing I can point out is that it's one of the best attractions with some of those future design patterns, being all mirror like and all, it's one of those attractions that capture the fictitious 21st century look.

As you make your way in, you see a good view of your ride vehicles as they ascend into the pavilion. That's what I was talking about meaning future design patterns. Our host, Gary Owens, serves as our narrator as we move inside. He explains to all of us about the history of how we moved from one place to another and the whole attraction takes on a comical like transparent.

We start with the dawn of man and how we moved by foot. We see a series of footprints illuminated on our right side, followed by two cave people who are trying to cool their aching, burning feet. I guess they got a bad case of athlete's foot there.

We now enter a new method, sailing, and how it's described as our first safe highway, followed by traveling on animals, we see a bunch of people travel on different types of animals at a toll road but another guy travels on a magic carpet. I guess that's one way to save a few bucks.

Now we enter what is possibly the Phoenician era and see a bunch of peasants trying to impress a king about the invention of the wheel. While a guard rejects the first three designs, the king is impressed with the round one.

We now go through each time period and see how the wheel has helped improve others in their method of transportation.

Now we come to age of discovering new worlds, we see a sailor looking through binocular, little does he know, he's right smack dab near a water dragon. I laughed hysterically when I saw this for the first time.

We reach the renaissance period and see Leonardo Da Vinci working on his flying contraption and it looks like Mona Lisa is impatient and wants to be painted right away.

It seems that now we go further ahead to discover hot air ballons to locomotive trains to steam powered machinery. As you can see, we have a guy in a hot air balloon, someone's carriage getting pushed back by a bull, and the part I found to be funny was when train robbers are robbing a locomotive.

Two other parts I found very hilarious is one where this guy riding his bike is being hassled by a dog. And the other is this who looks like Hulk Hogan goes into a hog pen.

As we continue on, we come across this part which is considered to be the first traffic jam in history.

Now, we see the invention of the airplane, a few good things I remember from this part.

We see an officer hiding behind a billboard watching speeders pass by, then a couple of ladies get their picture taken with a pilot while a family observes.

Now, we see automobiles from the 50s and see electronic billboards in the background for each of them how they help improve lives.

Now, we come to my favorite part of the ride yet. We enter three speed rooms and it makes you feel like your going at a more faster rate because I was forced to lean back when I saw this. One of the rooms is where they used computer graphics from the movie, Tron.

Now, we come to the greatest and wonderful pieces of futuristic architecture I have ever seen. This is one of the most spectacular future cities that you have ever saw. I just wish they make something like this somewhere else.

We now conclude with seeing ourselves in a futuristic machine, I always wondered how they did that.

After the ride, we enter a place called transcenter where we see the future of possible transportation ideas.

One thing I remember was this show called Bird and the robot, where bird introduces us to his robot assistant, Tiger who teaches us how cars are made, of course, Tiger is ticking off bird most of the time. My parents kinda gave me the nickname after seeing this show.

Another show is where a group of different characters try to display different types of engines of the future and how and what they will run on, didn't care really much for this show being that I was real young around this time.

The attraction closed down in 1996, to make room for Test track, I may do my next article on that if you all would like me too.

Anyway, take care and so long.

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I agree with matacron, World of Motion maybe should not have been done away with. I completely understand the need to make room for the new sometimes, but World of motion taught kids the history of transportation. What does Test Track teach them? That going fast is cool?? Test Track also feels like a big promotion for GM too. World of Motion was a GM sponsored ride too, but it never quite felt like it. Aside from the car showcase after the ride that Test Track still has too. In some ways I like it when things at the parks don't change. Magic Kingdom at Disney is a perfect example. The majority of the rides there have remained with the exception of just a small few. They're classics that the park has always had, are great as you grow up and go back to look at with nostagia, and still work for kids today. I suppose you'll always have someone complaining though if you tear down something. But I really do miss World of Motion. It always struck a very similar parallel to me with Spaceship Earth at Epcot. History of communication --> history of transportation. Great article, but I do sort of agree with dalmationlover; keep the pictures at a minimum unless you've been able to find really good ones. Many of these I'm sure were screengrabs from video and you can't really even tell what a few of them are. Great memories though!

I know this is going to sound really sad coming from a 30-year-old man, but I almost feel like I want to cry looking at these pictures. It's really horrible how much GOOD stuff Disney has gotten rid of over the years and replaced with complete crap.

They replaced "Journey Into the Imagination," "Horizons," and so many others with pale shadows of their former selves.

"World of Motion" is one of the FEW rides that they've actually replaced with something HALFWAY decent. I'm certainly not going to scoff at the Test Track.

Either way, keep articles like these coming. I rated this one thumbs up before I even read it. These pictures are worth more words than I can say, and you've GOT to love the way that EPCOT Center looks at night.

The episodic adventure through Epcot continues. The only issue I see with the pictures is when you post giant, dark, fuzzy images that are impossible to make out, it interrupts the flow of the article. I do feel this one moved better than the others.